Originally Posted by Skippy

Five votes each for the 300D and the Grand Marquis. I'm surprised at the level of enthusiasm for the Grand Monkey on this forum. I didn't bother posting this on crownvic.net (where I also am a member) because I figured they would all say to go with the Panther.

If the tranny weren't leaking on the 300, there wouldn't be any question of taking that one. I'm concerned the leak could get much worse during the trip. OTOH, I recall reading a thread where someone had a considerably worse front seal leak, used some stop leak, and got numerous thousands of additional leak-free miles out of his.